Senior Cloud Development Engineer - STACKIT (m/w/d)

• Next Generation Cloud Architecture: Design and advise on the next generation of our cloud and virtualization technology.
• Cloud System Architecture: Design, build, and operate resilient, highly scalable cloud services and underlying IaaS/PaaS components.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Implement and maintain infrastructure provisioning using code-driven workflows (IaC).
• Control Plane & Microservices: Design and develop custom Kubernetes operators, controllers, and RESTful/gRPC APIs to control cloud resource lifecycles.
• Advise Management on technology strategy: Help to develop our technology roadmap
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Participate in performance optimization, capacity planning, fault recovery, and incident management to maintain high availability guarantees.
• Agile Collaboration: Work closely in cross-functional DevOps/DevSecOps teams with Cloud Architects, Security Engineers, and Product Owners.

Your Tasks

• Next Generation Cloud Architecture: Design and advise on the next generation of our cloud and virtualization technology.
• Cloud System Architecture: Design, build, and operate resilient, highly scalable cloud services and underlying IaaS/PaaS components.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Implement and maintain infrastructure provisioning using code-driven workflows (IaC).
• Control Plane & Microservices: Design and develop custom Kubernetes operators, controllers, and RESTful/gRPC APIs to control cloud resource lifecycles.
• Advise Management on technology strategy: Help to develop our technology roadmap
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Participate in performance optimization, capacity planning, fault recovery, and incident management to maintain high availability guarantees.
• Agile Collaboration: Work closely in cross-functional DevOps/DevSecOps teams with Cloud Architects, Security Engineers, and Product Owners.

Your Profile

• Must have
• Educational Background: Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent practical experience.
• Software Development: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in C, C++, Go (Golang), Python, or Rust for infrastructure-level programming.
• Cloud Architecture & Networking: Solid understanding of core networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/2), Load Balancing, Ingress Controllers, and Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Cilium).
• DevOps & CI/CD: Mastery of modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) and GitOps principles.
• Language Skills: Business fluent in English (oral and written); German skills are a plus.
• Nice to have
• Experience with open-source cloud management platforms such as OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Cinder) or Ceph distributed storage.
• Cloud security fundamentals (IAM, zero-trust network design, encryption at rest and in transit).
• Active contributions to open-source cloud-native projects (e.g., CNCF ecosystem).